MAYHEM 2024 was held in Lebanon, NH from Friday, April 19th to Sunday April 21st. I attended and had signed up to run 4 Wars of Ozz games there – 2 on Friday and 2 on Saturday as I had a golf commitment on Sunday.
Before too much time had passed – I wanted to give a photo summary of my experiences there. It was my first MAYHEM and came quickly on the heels of HAVOC two weeks before. I packed up the car Friday morning and headded up through Western Massachusetts and Vermont and into New Hampshire.
The convention was held at the Hilton Garden Inn in Lebanon, NH. Below you will see the layout of their small convention ballroom and the gaming tables. I got to stay at #4. The diagonal table set ups were a bit strange – but probably used to maximize the space. As you can see there were tables in the hallway and even in the hotel lobby.
I set up my tables similar to the previous conventions, with 6 brigades deployed 3 to a side.
Friday Afternoon “Learn to Play Wars of Ozz” game
My first game was sold out – and went well.
The players were all newbies to Ozz, and picked up the game quickly. What follows is some of the mayhem at, well, MAYHEM…
In the end, the game was actually very close, with the Quadlings and Munchkins eking out a 26-24 victory over the Winkies and Gillikins.
Friday Night “Heavy Meeting Engagement Wars of Ozz” game
My Friday night game was surprisingly not well-attended – I had only 2 players. Usually my games had been full or close to full at previous conventions. I guess I was due. Luckily, my set-up allows for this possible situation. I had one player play the Quadlings (Ken – his second Ozz game) and another (sorry I failed to write down his name but he was a nice guy for sure) played the Winkies. With only two players, it went fast.
Below are the two opponents:
And here are some action photos:
The game ended amicably, although the Winkies won 11-3.
I ended Friday with a couple of pics of a nice challenge coin given to me (army guy) by a Navy veteran Frank Preziosa. Very cool and thanks Frank!
Saturday morning was extremely disappointing as I had zero players. It happens. I left my tabletop set up for the Saturday afternoon game and joind a Napoleonics homebrew rules game of the Battle of Marengo on the Austrian side. The GM ran the game twice, in two parts. The morning results would be the basis of the afternoon game – which I could not join as I did have players on Saturday afternoon. The GM was gracious and the game was fun – and my Austrians did pretty well.
After lunch, I ran my last game – as I had set up for the morning with 6 players.
Saturday Afternoon “Heavy Meeting Engagement Wars of Ozz” game
Well, this was with smaller brigades, but still a fun game.
In the end, The Winkies and Gillikins solidly defeated the Quadlings and Munchkins 34.5 to 19.
I want to thank the players who participated in my games, as well as the MAYHEM staff for running the convention. I hope that you readers enjoyed these photos. I will be running many of these games at the “HUZZAH Goes to Hollywood” convention in May.
Hopefully, I can share a couple of new units with you shortly. Thansk for looking!
Miscellaneous details and references for those interested in that sort of thing:
For all of my previous posts on Wars of Ozz games, figures, units, and other related projects – please see this page.
As you may want to check out the excellent Wars of Ozz figures’ range – there are two places to get them and to get your own copy of the rules. The game rules and the figures are available from the following two places:
In the US Old Glory has a site – Wars of Ozz Miniatures.
In the UK go to Sally 4th.
Mark A. Morin 
Looks like a lot of fun and seeing the yellow brick road on a war game table never gets old! I like the town buildings too, very thematic. I don’t remember seeing the dire bears before, are those yours?
The first pic reminds me of how much stuff I bring downstairs for our D&D games. But honestly it’s 1/4 of what you have to take to your games, so next time I won’t complain so much!! 😂
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I have two regiments of Dire Bears. One has tan bases that were in a big Gillikin grouping from an estate sale in the UK that I grabbed – and repainted a bit because the resin and paint had separated in spots. The green-based bears are all mine and I posted on them here: https://markamorin.com/2023/09/27/lions-tigers-bears-oh-my-wars-of-ozz/
I had to buy a new car to fit everything! More toys more fun, right? Thanks Faust!
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Haha, bigger car to fit all the minis?! I’ve got to try that one on my Wife!! 😂
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Looks like quite an event Mark. 🙂
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Thankis Dave, it was, but I have some really cool update to share on another convention (which you probably saw in Facebook but shhhh it’s a blog secret!)
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Some great games that look a lot of fun.
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Cheers Dave!
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Your games look fantastic as always Mark, and the ones playing always look like they’re having fun. shame on the turn out for two of your games, but it happens unfortunately.
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Thanks Dave – but stay tuned for some cool news on a following convention (which I could type up faster if I wasn’t golfing 6/7 days in a row…
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Nice looking games. All the players seem to be having fun.
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Well I think the rules had a great author!
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Great looking games…I reckon that Dorothy etc Al would be playing hell if they had to follow that yellow brick road.😉 based on your luggage trolley I reckon you needed one.
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So true! thanks!
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Very cool- glad to see so many people keen to learn about the ruleset in that introductory session.
That challenge coin is really nice too.
Cheers,
Pete.
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Cheers Pete!
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Nice games, as always Mark! 🙂 I suppose there’s always going to be some variation in the number of players you get. For the two players it would have been just as good as it would have been with more and for the no show you at least got to participate in another game!
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Cheers John – and I have some news coming that really rocked my hobby world!
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You can’t just leave us hanging on words like that! How am I going to sleep at night now? 🙂
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Sorry John, part 1 just published (of 3)!!!
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I thought the same as John on the game with two players. I could see that working out really well if they were both engaged and enjoyed the game. As always the pictures are excellent and it looks like a great time was had by all the participants which is the most important thing.
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Thanks – I need to post on Huzzah – That went gangbusters!
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